Police Beat

Collected by Nick Pinto
POSTED APRIL 1, 2008

44 Trinity Place
2/22...Time unknown
A contractor working on the property reported that two scaffold motors, valued at $12,000, had been stolen from the top of the scaffolding. The motors had been left unattended at the site for three weeks due to bad weather. The contractors had thought the motors would be safe because they were kept so high up.

Pearl & John
3/5...2:30 p.m.
A woman parked her gray 2001 Toyota Prius on the corner, but later noticed that her keys were missing. When she returned, the vehicle was gone.

Canal & 6th
3/10...10 a.m.
An MTA employee parked a company vehicle. When the night crew came to retrieve it, they found it missing. The vehicle was a white 2006 GMC Savannah.

30 John
3/10...6:10 p.m.
A man walked into the Tie Gallery and demanded all the cash from the register, threatening to stab the saleswoman if she didn’t comply. The woman, alone in the store, gave him $500 before he fled.

36 Lispenard
3/14...bet. 8:30 a.m. and 3 p.m.
Between the time a man left his apartment to go to work and when his girlfriend returned from shopping, someone broke into their apartment, damaging  the lock and door. The intruder stole $1,400 worth of property, including a Montblanc watch and two iPods.

23 Park Row
3/14...4:30 p.m.
A 26-year-old man tried to buy $3,467 worth of goods from J & R Music World with a credit card and identification in the name of another person. Police were called and the man was arrested.

120 Cedar
3/14...8:30 p.m.
A 36-year-old woman from Mineola, L.I., leaned her laptop against the wall next to where she stood at O’Hara’s bar. When she looked down a short time later, she saw that the laptop was gone. The total value of her stolen property was $2,120.

102 Franklin
3/14...after 9 p.m.
An intruder broke into Biscuits and Bath  and took $150 from the register as well as a $100 digital camera.

93 Leonard
3/16...2:45 a.m.
An unknown assailant stabbed a 22-year-old Brooklyn man in the left cheek outside Peppers night club. The victim was taken to Downtown New York Hospital, where he received 18 stitches to his face, but he declined to cooperate with the police investigation.

90 Broad
3/19...2:40 p.m.
A man walked into a bank with a ski mask on, carrying an open black  plastic bag. He displayed a silver handgun and told a teller, “Give me your money.” The teller was on the phone, so he repeated “Give me your money.” The teller responded that she had no money and no key to access the money. The man left the bank.

42 Broadway
3/19...7:45 p.m.
A former employee of Superior Glacier Systems went to their offices to collect money owed to him. While he was speaking with his former manager, two male employees jumped him from behind and began punching and kicking him. One assailant picked up a metal chair and struck him in the head with it. The victim suffered a black eye and required 10 staples to his head. No one was arrested.

345 Chambers
3/20...9 p.m.
A 48-year-old cleaner at Stuyvesant High School was observed on one of the school’s surveillance cameras  removing $100 from a locked desk without permission. The man was arrested.

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